Vivek Kumar, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Rural) said, "Information was recieved that a two-storeyed building collapsed and several people are feared to be trapped under the debris."
Teams of the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) and the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) are engaged in the relief and rescue work, Barabanki Superintendent of Police Dinesh Kumar Singh said.
A portion of a two-storey building collapsed on Saturday midnight in the Gauripada area of Bhiwandi city leaving two persons dead, officials said, adding that the building is said to be forty-five years old.